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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Principal operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a Principal is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Richard Whitehead
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Chris Webb
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Thomson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about using Git, and the co-host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
David Reid
Principal Consultant – CRM of Microsoft
A technologist at heart and an experienced technical seller of customer service solutions to enterprise customers. He is keen to show the value of the Microsoft Business Applications platform and how Dynamics 365 can enable your business and your customers to achieve more.
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About Behaviour Interactive, Microsoft, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Dean Bryen
Principal Cloud Advocate – Azure Security of Microsoft
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About Cloud Security London, Connected2, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Annette Garner
Industry Principal Solution Specialist for Healthcare of Microsoft
Annette Garner is an Azure Specialist in the Health Team at Microsoft in a role designed to challenge and support Microsoft clients to transform using Data and AI services in the cloud. The ambition of the Health Team at Microsoft is bold, to empower our clients to achieve more. Digital transformation in health is happening in all areas, and the team at Microsoft have a clear focus to bring effective solutions to the health market to support our clients, health professionals and patients with this journey. Annette has over 15 years’ experience working in Health Tech and Health Data, and has previously worked for a startup, several SMEs and an multinational Healthcare Company before joining Microsoft in 2016.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Simon Peyton Jones
Principal Researcher of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Andy Gordon
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft
Andy Gordon is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Gordon’s main project is Calc Intelligence, which brings intelligence to end-user programming, especially spreadsheets. Gordon also holds the Chair in Computer Security and is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science and the Security and Privacy group in the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh. Gordon convenes the University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics, and participates in both the Data Science PhD program and the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Network. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gordon was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Gordon has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gordon’s research is on programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases. Gordon has published and lectured on: input/output in pure functional programming, hardware description languages, mobile computation, security protocols, web services security, distributed authorization, configuration management, and database programming languages. He has also worked on probabilistic programming for machine learning.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Patrick Galbraith
Principal Platform Engineer of Oracle
Patrick Galbraith is a principal engineer at HPE as a member of the Advanced Technology Group. He is the author or two books: Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl (Wiley), and Expert PHP and MySQL (Wiley). In his “spare time”, he also works on various projects related to Kubernetes, MySQL perl driver DBD::mysql, Ansible Modules for HP Switches, and generally tinkers with new technologies. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as his Kubota tractor.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mike Hobbs
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Mike Hobbs works as a Principal Engineer at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Vikram Kimyani
Principal Cloud Sales Consultant of Oracle
Vik has many years’ experience of running a private cloud operations and on-boarding team for Credit Suisse. He now works as a solutions architect for Oracle, advising customers on cloud migrations, API and Blockchain strategy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Stephen Bourke
Master Principal IaaS Consultant of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ben Haworth
Principal Sales Consultant (IaaS) of Oracle
Ben Haworth is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle UK&I in their Infrastructure as a Service Specialist team, responsible for educating and assisting customers (start-ups through to enterprise) to design and deliver solutions on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in conjunction with Oracle Platform and Software as a Service offerings. Ben has worked with Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud technology since 2010, first at a global System Integrator as a Cloud Platform Architect, then at a Converged Infrastructure vendor before joining Oracle to work with their next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2016. Ben has 15 years’ experience in IT, starting as a network architect before progressing in to the broader Infrastructure services of Cloud but he remains interested in networking with the developments in software-defined and function virtualisation amongst others. He graduated from University of St. Andrews with First Class Honours in Computer Science. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons and playing golf.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Nowi Kallen
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
Nowi Kallen is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Ollie Gayton
Principal Consultant of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ollie leads the Cloud Infrastructure for Azure and Azure Stack practice for HPE Pointnext UK&I. His team is responsible for designing and implementing secure and scalable foundational cloud environments capable of hosting multiple types of workload – IaaS and PaaS – as well as defining and implementing clients’ cloud migration plans.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Andy Wilkinson
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Pivotal
Andy is a software developer on the Spring team at Pivotal where he’s currently working on Spring Boot, Spring REST Docs, and the Spring IO Platform. When he’s not working with server-side Java, Andy enjoys the different challenges presented by developing for iOS.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Fiona Maini
Principal – Global Compliance and Strategy of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Ben Evans
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Peter Robinson
Principal IoT Architect of Red Hat
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About Linaro, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
James Allen
Principal Solutions Architect of Red Hat
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James Read
Principal Solution Architect, EMEA Alliances of Red Hat
A technically orientated IT professional, with a focus on Technical Partner Management in the Cloud and Service Provider space, especially with Azure. James has been at Red Hat for 8 years.
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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Lee Yarwood
Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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Roger Nunn
Senior Principal Architect of Red Hat
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Russell Herbert
Industry Principal of OSIsoft
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About AVEVA, OSIsoft: OSIsoft is a manufacturer of application software for real-time data infrastructure solutions.
Chris Hewertson
Principal | CIO | CTO | Board Advisory of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
Ian Macdonald
Principal Technologist of Pyramid Analytics
A ‘hands-on’, product oriented technical marketing professional with extensive experience of the international software market. Primary focus has been on the database, development and query tools, data mining, business intelligence applications and IT infrastructure management solutions, setting product strategy, marketing, partnering and selling to senior positions within Fortune 2000 companies
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About Pyramid Analytics: Say goodbye to business intelligence. Say hello to Decision Intelligence. Meet the Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform.
Ruyman Reyes
Principal Software Engineer of Codeplay Software
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About Codeplay Software: Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect of Modality Systems
A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Founder and Principal at Empowering.Cloud as well as a Solutions Director at Pure IP. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks.blog, UC Today Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular speaker at events around the world.
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About Modality Systems: Modality Systems is a technology company specializing in Microsoft Unified Communications technologies.
